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... are found near the river, some of which look abandoned. A rocky crag up in the mountains gives out a flow of white smoke as if the furnace down below was connected to it by an invisible underground vent. ...

... to reach not only the monasteries tucked away in the mountains, but sometimes even make logical connections between two points of my itinerary. And whenever it was feasible and I felt like it, if hitchhiking ...

... end, where the dry mountains reflect magically in the water. The isolation of the monastery in the middle of this huge high-altitude lake must have been sublime when the water level used to be 20 meters ...

... to cover using my own legs.
The first part of the paved road was inside a canyon overhung with two walls of sheer rock, a deep shady cut in the mountains that eased the high temperature a bit. Gradually ...

... calculator. It was hilarious.
Before the lady left I asked her a favour: go up to the terrace for a top floor view. I had been impressed by the bare rugged mountains around Yeghegnadzor, and now the ...

Sisian is a town set in the midst of yellow fields with a distant crown of mountains all around. Coming from Goris, 400 m higher, I spent one night here in order to see the prehistoric standing stones. ...

... was intoxicating. I had come from Paleochora, stayed at Soughia during the night of the storm, continued walking to Loutro and then left the coast in the direction of the mountains. However, by the time ...

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The Table Mountains, approximately 10 kilometres from Kudowa, are a singular sight. The strange rock formations on their flat top are unique and a walk along the trail also offers rewarding panoramas. ...

... ordinary people breathe the dust raised by their wheels. I had a sinking feeling I would have to give up Nechisar.
From the roundabout the backdrop of mountains looked like a painting with boosted contrast ...

If the first day in the Web Vally had filled me with expectation for what still lay ahead, the second day was rather disappointing. We backtracked for a very long way, then our route cut across the hills ...

... a trail across fields scattered with recently built huts, a bit up from the village, then we turned towards the mountains. If the relationship with the scout at the start had been a difficult one, he managed ...

... to Dodola, in the heights of the Bale mountains. There was a friendly conductor on board wearing a professional green smock, but better still was the driver who drove carefully. All his concentration was ...

... This sport-loving boy made it a habit of training by running up the mountainside, and always wore the same flat shoes he had on.
We crossed an area of sheds which made me cringe at the prospect of having ...

... its surroundings.
Shidong was my first visit, after a longish ride over the mountains. Its ethnic market was incredibly interesting and big, spreading along the main street and down all over a river ...

... and continue by bus. We climbed in altitude, crossed beautiful conifer forests. The weather turned to overcast and, higher in the mountains, rainy. The grey clouds were not passing. Finally I got to the ...

I moved on to Xingyi with excitement. I expected a lot from the journey and was not disappointed. The smooth highway crossed a landscape strewn with conical mountains and gouged by valleys across which ...

... villagers will be left with an encumbering cut across the wood-covered mountainside and the unsightly viaducts cutting across the valleys. On the upside, fewer lorries will ply the battered bank-side road ...

... took a bus to the Ily river, flowing down from the faraway mountains with a strong current. There was a sort of pathetic fairground with different attractions like the throw of the rings, merry-go-rounds, ...

... trees, and distant rocky mountains.
The village houses were made of trunks. No concrete was used save in the basement, the only innovative sign of modernity to replace what formerly was build with stones. ...

... the end of limitless prairies dotted with wild flowers, snowy mountains appeared in a distant haze.
Here and there, a greener patch of grass was the sign that there was water underneath. I walked down ...